{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-2006/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-2006/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2827",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 13th November 2006.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953;\n“the Principal Regulations” means the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987, and unless the context otherwise requires any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in those Regulations; and\n“the Welsh Language Regulations” means the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 1987.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 13.11.2006, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2088, amended by S.I. 1988/638, 1989/497, 1991/2275, 1992/2753, 1994/1948, 1997/844 and 1997/1533."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2089, amended by S.I. 1988/687, 1989/511, 1992/1504 and 1995/818."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2827/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:17:51.734707+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}